US Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Justice Outreach program: Connecting justice-involved veterans with mental health and substance use disorder treatment

AK Finlay, D Smelson, L Sawh… - Criminal Justice …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
The Veterans Justice Outreach (VJO) program of the US Veterans Health Administration has
a primary mission of linking military veterans in jails, courts, or in contact with law …

Use of Veterans Health Administration mental health and substance use disorder treatment after exiting prison: The Health Care for Reentry Veterans program

AK Finlay, M Stimmel, J Blue-Howells… - … and Policy in Mental …, 2017 - Springer
Abstract The Veterans Health Administration (VA) Health Care for Reentry Veterans (HCRV)
program links veterans exiting prison with treatment. Among veterans served by HCRV …

Facilitating treatment access and engagement for justice-involved veterans with substance use disorders

LH Glynn, MS Kendra, C Timko… - Criminal Justice …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
More than one half of US military Veterans with criminal-justice involvement report
problematic substance use, but less than one third ever receive or engage in treatment for …

Diversion of veterans with criminal justice involvement to treatment courts: Participant characteristics and outcomes

J Tsai, B Flatley, WJ Kasprow, S Clark… - Psychiatric …, 2017 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Objective: This study compared characteristics and outcomes between veterans who
participated in veterans treatment courts (VTCs) and veterans involved in criminal justice …

Sex differences in mental health and substance use disorders and treatment entry among justice-involved veterans in the Veterans Health Administration

AK Finlay, IA Binswanger, D Smelson, L Sawh… - Medical …, 2015 - journals.lww.com
Background: Over half of veterans in the criminal justice system have mental health or
substance use disorders. However, there is a critical lack of information about female …

The impact of substance use disorders on treatment engagement among justice-involved veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder.

MA Stimmel, J Rosenthal, J Blue-Howells… - Psychological …, 2019 - psycnet.apa.org
Veterans involved with the criminal justice system represent a particularly vulnerable
population who experience high rates of both posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and …

[HTML][HTML] Expanding the scope of forensic and other services for justice-involved veterans

J Rosenthal, AK Finlay - The journal of the American Academy of …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Military veterans are a unique population within the criminal justice system. Numerous
criminal justice reforms for this population exist, but there is a dearth of research …

Many shades of green: Assessing awareness of differences in mental health care needs among subpopulations of military veterans

EM Ahlin, AS Douds - International journal of offender …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
The current study sought to examine access to services by various veteran subgroups:
racial/ethnic minorities, females, rural populations, and LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual …

Systematic review of criminal and legal involvement after substance use and mental health treatment among veterans: Building toward needed research

C Timko, A Nash, MD Owens… - Substance Abuse …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Evidence indicates that substance use and mental health treatment is often associated with
reduced criminal activity. The present systematic review examined this association among …

A national study of veterans treatment court participants: Who benefits and who recidivates

J Tsai, A Finlay, B Flatley, WJ Kasprow… - Administration and Policy …, 2018 - Springer
Although there are now over 400 veterans treatment courts (VTCs) in the country, there have
been few studies on participant outcomes in functional domains. Using national data on …